*Bronco is gone
*Same league for the first time in over a decade, meaning *more* similar recruiting (on paper they are still up on us, but gap has significantly narrowed)
*There has only been one game in the last, what, five years? A lot of the trend before was feeding off of familiarity and monkeys on players' backs.
*Fewer players from this area--it isn't going to have the same juice for a guy from the Wasatch Front than it does for some guy from Texas who is new to all of this.
*Only a few players on either side have played in it